Car-fender.



O. KLEYMEIER.

OAR FENDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAlLBl, 1908.

Patented Nov. 24, 1908.

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OAR FENDER. APPLIGYATION FILED MAB-.31, 1908.

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CAR-FENDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 24, 1908.

Application filed March 31, 1908. Serial No. 424,431.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLEMENS KLEYMEIER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Covington, in the county of Kenton and State ofKentucky, have invented a new and Improved Car-Fender, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of this invention is to provide novel details ofconstruction for a street car fender, which render the device strong,durable, compact and convenient for placing upon or removing from a car;the fender, when in position for service, being adapted to positivelyguard against accidents, and when in operation, gently but positivelyremoving laterally from the track a person or object that is picked upby the fender, and without injury to the person or object.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination ofparts, as is hereinafter described and defined in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a art ofthis specification, in which similar c aracters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the Views.

Figure l is a front elevational View, showing the improved fendermounted for service on a car; Fig. 2 is a reversed plan view of thefender-apron, showing rolling supports thereon; Fig. 3 is a side view ofthe end portion of a street car and a sectional side view of theimproved fender mounted thereon, the section being taken substantiallyon the line 33 in Fig. 1, and Fig. at is a transverse sectional view ofdetails of the fender, substantially on the line et l in Fig. 4:.

In the drawings that represent the construction and application of theimproved fender upon a street car, A indicates the body of such a carprovided with the usual vestibule, of which A is the front wall. Theupper portion of the improved car fender is formed of a plurality ofsubstantially vertical metal bars 5, secured at spaced intervals uponthree or more horizontal bars 6, 6, 6*, that are respectively located atthe upper ends of the vertical bars and at proper distances ofseparation lower down on said bars.

The upright bars are preferably curved, as shown, to give them forwardprojection and clearance from the bumper A that is a forward extensionof the car bottom frame, and, as represented in Fig. 1, a suitable spaceis afforded at the transverse center of the fender, between thehorizontal bars (3, (5, 6 to admit the passage of a car coupling barforwardly from the car body when this is necessary, and likewise apusher-bar, as may be desired. The outward and downward curvature of thevertical fender bars 5 gives a graceful appearance to the fender, anddisposes the lower ends of said bars in two equal series, that inclinelaterally and rearwardly in two rows, that diverge at an obtuse anglefrom each other. The lower ends of the fender bars 5 are each bentforwardly at a right angle, and upon said extension or base flanges a ametal frame is mounted and secured.

The box-like fender frame, which is a leading feature of the invention,as shown in Fig. 3, but more clearly in Fig. at, consists of a skeletonstructure having a back plate Z) bent at an obtuse angle, that conformswith that of the two series of vertical bars 5. Upon the upper edge ofthe angular back plate 6 a top plate 0 is located, which may be formedintegral therewith or be secured thereto, as may be preferred.

A flat apron (Z is formed or secured at its rear edge portion upon thelower edge of the angular back plate 6, and thence extends forward in ahorizontal plane, said apron being disposed parallel with the top plate0. The obtuse angular form of the apron (Z is shown in Fig. 1, and moreclearly in Fig. at, its forward edge being reinforced by the formationthereon of a tubular hem 6, wherein a stiffening rod 0 is inserted, saidedge being rounded, as appears in Figs. 3 and L of the drawings.

A guard-wall is erected on the apron (Z at a proper distance forwardfrom the back plate I) and parallel therewith, this guardplate being cutaway to afford longitudinal openings therein, which extend from pointsnear the angular center of the guard-wall to points near the outer endsthereof.

In the space between the apron (Z and topplate 0 a plurality of spacedshafts h are journaled in perforations in said plate and apron, and uponsaid shafts toothed wheels 2' are mounted and secured in pairs, theteeth of said wheels being preferably V-shaped and slightly projectedexterior of the guardwall q. Each spaced row of shafts h extends fromnear the angular center of the guard-wall g to points near the outerends thereof, and the wheels 2 on said shafts are of such a diameter, aswill afford necessary clearance between the peripheries of pairs ofwheels on adjacent shafts, as is clearly shown in Fig. 1.

Upon the front of the wall A of the car body a plurality of spacedbracket loops m are secured, at a proper height from the bottom of saidwall and in a horizontal plane, and upon the top horizontal bar 6 of thecar fender a corresponding series of hooks n is secured, that may behooked into respective loops m for the pendent attachment of the carfenderupon the front end wall of the car, as indicated in Fig. 1.

As shown in Fig. 3, the relative position of the fender when pendent onthe car body is such that the apron (Z will be disposed parallel withand near to the track-rails B of the railroad.

On the lower side of the apron (Z three sets of rollers 0 are securedfree to rotate on said apron, these rollers having sutficient clear ancefrom the rails and road-bed to permit them to work freely and supportthe car fender while the car is moving and oscillates on its springs.

It will be seen that a person or small child that is by accident struckby the front edge of the apron (Z will fall toward the wheels 2', andthese will, by their contact with the clothing of a child or adult thatmay be partially dragging on the ground, turn in a direction to gentlypush the person clear of the car body and the wheels thereof, thuspreventing a serious accident. The guard wall will prevent the clothingof a person struck by the fender from getting entangled with thejournals of the wheels 2'. Furthermore, as the apron (Z is located nearto the roadbed, it will be obvious that neither the body or limbs of achild or adult can pass beneath the edge of the apron, which will inmost cases aid in pushing the prostrated body off of the track.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. A car fender, embodying a plurality of substantially uprightfender-bars, horizontal bars on which the fender-bars are spaced andsecured, a box-like frame secured on the lower ends of the fender-bars,an apron projected forward from the box-like frame, shafts journaled inthe top and bottom walls of said frame, and wheels secured on saidshafts, the peripheries of the wheels projecting through an opening insaid box-like frame.

2. A car fender, embodying a plurality of fender bars, a plurality ofhorizontal bars on which the fender bars are spaced and secured and fromwhich said fender bars are curved outward and downward, said dependingfender bars each having a foot flange projected forward from its lowerend, a boxlike frame of substantially \l-shape and secured horizontallyon the foot flanges, an apron extended forwardly from the lower side ofthe box-like frame, a plurality of shafts spaced apart and journaled attheir ends in the top and bottom walls of the box-like frame, and wheelshaving angular teeth that extend outward through an opening in the frontwall of the box-like frame.

3. In a car fender of the character described, the box-like frametherefor, comprising an upright back plate, a top plate, a bottom platethat projects forward and forms an apron, an open front wall extendedupright between the apron and the top plate, a plurality of shaftsspaced apart and journaled in the bottom plate and top plate, and wheelson the shafts, having angular teeth on their peripheries, thatprojectthrough the open front plate of the box-like frame.

a. In a car fender, a frame having its bottom extended beyond its top toform a forwardly projecting apron, and a plurality of wheels looselymounted in the frame on vertical axes with their peripheries projectingbeyond the top of the frame.

5. In a car fender, a box-like frame having an opening in its front walland provided with a forwardly projecting apron, and a plurality ofwheels loosely mounted in the box-like frame, the peripheries of thewheels projecting through the opening of the front wall of the saidframe.

6. In a car fender, a substantially V-shaped box-like frame having anopening in its front wall and provided with a forwardly projecting aproncorresponding in shape to that of the frame, and a plurality of wheelsmounted on vertical shafts in the frame with their peripheriesprojecting through the opening of the front wall of the said frame.

7. In a car fender, a substantially V-shaped box-like frame having anopening in its front wall and provided with a forwardly projecting aproncorresponding in shape to that of the frame, a plurality of verticalshafts mounted in the frame, and a plurality of wheels mounted on eachshaft and having their peripheries projecting through the opening of thefront wall of the frame.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

' CLEMENS KLEYMEIER. lVitnesses Jos. J. MosER, B. LEMKER.

